Johnnyessence:
PRESS STATEMENT

Fellow citizens of Ekiti State
Leaders and members of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Election Monitoring Groups (Local and International)
Nigerians - Home and Abroad; and
The International Community

Greetings!

I REJECT THE INEC RESULTS OF THE JULY 14, 2018 EKITI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

You are all aware of the unfortunate and dangerous events of the past 24 hours, in which our governorship election was hijacked by political desperadoes leveraging on “Federal might” to pervert the electoral process, subvert the will of Ekiti people, and viciously steal the mandate willingly and freely given to me on a massive scale by our people.

PDP and I won the election overwhelmingly, receiving more than 70% of lawful votes cast and winning in almost all of the State’s 16 local government areas. I therefore reject the falsified results being bandied by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which purportedly gave the election to the All Progressives Congress and its Candidate; Dr. John Kayode Fayemi.

This is the most audacious electoral robbery of our recent history. It shall not stand. By the grace of Almighty God and your support, I will pursue and regain my mandate.

To rig this election, the APC leveraged on its well-advertised but patently obnoxious and anti-democratic “Federal might” to intimidate, harass, victimize, oppress, and brutalize PDP leaders, members, and the voting public all over Ekiti. This brutal and barbaric process, which started well before the election, did not spare Gov. Ayo Fayose and me; as the whole world had seen and had condemned. It is quite unfortunate that the harassment has continued even after the election.

On Saturday, July 14th, the security agencies and INEC upped the ante, threw all caution to the wind, went back on their promises to be impartial and to conduct credible elections; they sided with APC and Fayemi to the chagrin of our party, myself, and the good people of Ekiti State. Despite the alarm we had earlier raised, the security agencies not only supported but also supervised

• The indiscriminate arrest of our party leaders and agents

• The harassment and brutalization of voters on a massive scale, especially in Ado-Ekiti, Ikere and the suburbs

• Giving cover, tacit as well as active support to thugs imported into Ekiti by APC to snatch ballot boxes, create confusion, cause mayhem, and drive away voters in PDP strongholds

• Giving cover to APC agents as they financially and openly induced voters and bought votes at polling stations; and

• Driving away our polling agents from collation centres and illegal seizure of documents and materials in their possession, among many other infractions.

INEC on its own part reneged on its promise to have results counted, declared, and pasted on the wall of each polling station. There was nowhere INEC transmitted results from the polling centres as earlier promised. Ballot boxes were illegally moved to INEC offices while our agents were disallowed from following the process.

INEC also allowed late voting by APC in hideouts when it was obvious the figures still would not add up after all the infractions mentioned above. Still, when all of these shenanigans still failed to give them the figures they needed, they stopped the announcement of results ward-by-ward, caused a deliberate power outage at the collation centre, with no alternative source of power provided for a long time, and then wrote results in favour of APC and its candidate.

Without doubt, what has played out in Ekiti is the APC template for the 2019 General Election, where they have mapped out Rivers and Akwa Ibom as States they must capture at all costs, like they are now trying to do Ekiti. It is now left for the opposition and opposition figures, most especially presidential hopefuls in 2019, to stand up to be counted in the struggle to roll back President Muhammadu Buhari’s creeping fascism, or throw in the towel without a fight.

This is not just a sad day for Ekiti but also for democracy in Nigeria. Nothing demonstrates this better than the gloom that has enveloped our dear State since they announced their convoluted result. Ekiti mourns! But I ask our people not to be despondent but to keep hope alive, quoting the inimitable Chief MKO Abiola. This is another battle we will fight and win.

In doing this, however, I appeal to all Ekiti sons and daughters to eschew violence. They will try and provoke you but the good Lord will help you to keep calm.

Taking a cue from our great leader and democrat par excellence, ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, I wish to reiterate that my ambition is not worth the blood of a single Ekiti son or daughter.

We are not cultists and bloody hounds like them and shall therefore not allow them turn Ekiti into a killing field like they have done in the Middle Belt.
It remains for me to thank Ekiti for standing by me and our great party.

Our royal fathers and the Oloris, teachers, civil servants, Okada riders, Labour leaders, market women, artisans, and students – I appreciate your unflinching support. We thank every Nigerian desirous to see the growth and defence of our renascent democracy.

We thank the international community for their efforts and trust they will not let our people down in this their most trying moment.

Those bent on setting this country on fire for selfish reasons must be restrained and turned back by the international community, mindful of the recent experience of Rwanda, Kosovo, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Cote D’Ivoire, to mention but a few.

The struggle has just started! I thank you.

Prof. Kolapo Olubunmi Olusola Eleka (Deputy Governor, Ekiti State & PDP governorship Candidate)

Bullshit

Some say PDP list because Fayose alienated support groups

This didn't have any effect ,he isn't the fisrt to alienate anyone , tinubu was against OBJ and the entire PDP run government but won re-election and even ensured Fashola won



APC rigged him out that's all



He hoped popularity would win but that works in countries with strong institutions where elections are free and fair and not where the electoral body in under the imcumbent



He lost same way GEJ lost by rigging



I see Nigerians say they voted out GEJ and I laugh



Votes don't count in Nigeria , rigging does



APC know how to rig , GEJ believed buhari was always loosing so he would loose again but reality kicked him in the balls



Buhari and APC had been perfecting rigging from State levels and did same in the federal



In 2019 your votes won't count either APC will rig and win again, unfortunately

iAudio:
even the American observers were sponsored by PDP/Fayose abi?

Which American observers

Am I the only one wondering why there is no massive jubilation from the ekiti people? If truly they loved fayemi or if truly they voted for apc I believe winning a sitting party was supposed to resolve to massive jubilation. Something is not right here

AfonjaBoston:


Who will serve the justice?

When Fayose's audio was played at the tribunal was justice served?

Awon oloshi

Lol. Or, Wike's audio threatening to kill corrupt INEC officials who were bribed by him but wouldn't deliver on time? Or, the audio of communication between him and Fayose?

PDP members, supporters and apologists shouldn't be talking about justice at all.

kolafolabi:
They should all stop making a noise..Fayemi is the winner..Fayose should get ready to face the full wrath of law..

Lol

Nigerians will never learn. You guys said the same thing few years back. Kuje and Kirikiri prison officers are still waiting to accommodate those corrupt politicians.

slimghost:
Read the comments here and see why Nigerians are sick people. Even when independent observers rejects the scam, some deadbrains still don't get it.
This is why Nigeria will continue to be a hellhole. A country full of imbeciles.

with this kinda comment of yours I'll say you are more dead brain than all the imbeciles you mentioned up there.

Gecoz:
Am I the only one wondering why there is no massive jubilation from the ekiti people? If truly they loved fayemi or if truly they voted for apc I believe winning a sitting party was supposed to resolve to massive jubilation. Something is not right here

are you currently in Ekiti?

Gecoz:
Am I the only one wondering why there is no massive jubilation from the ekiti people? If truly they loved fayemi or if truly they voted for apc I believe winning a sitting party was supposed to resolve to massive jubilation. Something is not right here

Looking at the election results one can deduce the following, more than half of the people with PVC did not vote.

Half of the half that voted especially in the non urban centres choose APC

There indeed was jubilation but most Nigerians have become uninterested as the struggle for daily bread is real.

It is even worst than that, after this apc administration; Nigerian would be backward by 25 years

That election is null and void a real embarrassment to democracy and Buhari in fact it was a total failure and must be cancel.

Both apc and pdp are guilty of the embarrassment.

Ekiti election was not an election but a rogues gathering casting votes in a rogue manner declared one of the rogue winner.

Johnnyessence:
you are still a kid on nairaland. wait don't you see that the election was rigged. international observers will be one of the testifiers in the tribunal.

Which international observers

You people can lie sha.

kolafolabi:
They should all stop making a noise..Fayemi is the winner..Fayose should get ready to face the full wrath of law..

ur name means goat in my language

CilicMarin:
[b]More like a coalition of PDP and ipob yoots assembled by Fayose to release a press statement ...

No be only coalition name Croatia..

Jonnyessence, are you not even ashamed? You failed in Edo Election, You Failed In Kogi, You Failed in ondo
now you failed in Ekiti election..[/]

See how foolish and myopic you are by celebrating a transparent and vivid evil and fraud in a sorry entity and someone is arguing that this shithole isn't a zoo and you ain't an animal?

Johnnyessence:


https://leadership.ng/2018/07/15/ekiti-guber-coalition-of-observers-reject-results-to-release-findings-wednesday/

the tone of the words sounds like ipob announcement. why wait till Wednesday to publish your findings & is it only apc that gave money. bbc video reports shows that pdp organised a cash for vote jamboree at ekiti old government house.

Sharpshooota:
Who doesn't know the election was rigged...

I tire.

whatever their findings, #abachaloot is on course

More contradictions. Different local and foreign observers had all described the election as fairly peaceful and credible earlier on both AIT and Channels TV. Which group is Coalition of observers again? Still observing...

I am so disappointed in d ekiti electorates,just because of peanut,they sold their votes,i think pdp should allow fayemi to rule except they have evidence that inec compromised the results

CilicMarin:
More like a coalition of PDP and ipob yoots assembled by Fayose to release a press statement ...

No be only coalition name Croatia..

Jonnyessence, are you not even ashamed? You failed in Edo Election, You Failed In Kogi, You Failed in ondo
now you failed in Ekiti election..

Pretend you have sense, even if for only once in your miserable life.

BluntBoy:


Which international observers

You people can lie sha.

So in your little mind you called ekiti election an election? No wonder young folks like you are very lazy, irrational, lack good sense of judgement and embrace cultism. And this is why many of your type finished uni and no one is ready to employ you if you as a youth consider ekiti election thrash as election because of party sympathy then Nigeria is in real trouble.

kolafolabi:
They should all stop making a noise..Fayemi is the winner..Fayose should get ready to face the full wrath of law..

Do we have law in Nigeria?

jrusky:


So in your little mind you called ekiti election an election? No wonder young folks like you are very lazy, irrational, lack good sense of judgement and embrace cultism. And this is why many of your type finished uni and no one is ready to employ you if you as a youth consider ekiti election thrash as election because of party sympathy then Nigeria is in real trouble.

Abeg, keep kweyet.

Sore loser. Take handkerchief and wipe your tears.

Which coalition? IBO NGOs or CSO. All those mushroom NGOs of jobless criminals using advocacy to collect fund from international donors. They are now many in Abuja using one or two rooms office. They corrupt & pollute international observers in any national election.

What were their observations & submissions in 2014 election where party leaders were arrested & kidnapped before election. They should paste the link to the site where their submission on Ekiti 2014 election was recorded.

They have forgotten Mrs Bisi Fayemi is a well known person in Civil Society advocacy program. There are thousands of mushroom NGOs looking for fund . Their submission on Wednesday is dead before arrival. They should vomit the PDP money collected.

Were they accredited by INEC to monitor the election? Which local government ? Some of us know much about NGO & election monitoring. Fake & hungry people

Coalition of Observers?? COO

nelronaldo:
Apc will give them money now

ABACHA LOOTS HAS WATERED THE GROUND. RESULTS SEALED AND FINAL. FEDERAL MIGHT

The accounts of this Election observers are very one sided.

Almost like they have a preconceived notion of the election winner.

How were they able to tell that every mishaps they saw was caused by APC?

How were they able to figure out that every of the thugs belonged to the Apc?

It only accused the APC of wrong doing, while Vindicating the PDP.

Almost like a judge and lawyer against APC

Most Election observers usually only point to irregularities in the elections, not support one party over the other and are never this specific.

Their positions is supposed to be a neutral. one

Johnnyessence:


https://leadership.ng/2018/07/15/ekiti-guber-coalition-of-observers-reject-results-to-release-findings-wednesday/

I knew APC will rig the election.

The truth can't be buried forever! I does surely come to surface one day!